Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I found a roll of red and black 16 gauge cable in the garage. I'm thinking to rewire my power supply for the hackintosh to make it match the color theme. Also im making up some Evil Inside stickers for the case to put on the Apple logo. Also im debating to add some LEDs for my hard drive and power.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
Depends on what you're trying to build. If you're trying to build a hackintosh it may work just fine. If you're trying to build a system for gaming then I would go with this one.
Hackintosh indeed, I can get the motherboard and a serviceable C2D chip for around $200 US. Not sure how well I will do with the OS install though, its a bit over my head, a good learning experience if you will.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
If you can build a basic Unix system then you can make OSX boot on a PC. Or you can cheat and download the highly illegal copy of a prebuild OSx86 but I wouldn't trust it.
I'm still trying to find the perfect CPU. I did how ever got a buddy of mine to install OSx on a 200GB drive with his new MacPro. The drive has 3 partitions. 1GB for the boot partition (vfat), 100GB for the OS and what not and 99GB for backups. Right now I have it on a crappy PC to work on the bootloader. I know 1GB is a bit much for the bootloader but I might toss on WinXP for dual booting.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
I got the perfect power supply today. My brother gave me his old PC and it has a 400watt Ultra power supply. Just need to polish it up since it's a chrome and dust is all over it and stained it in a few places.
When I go to cut up the case for the motherboard i'll need to also modify the spot for the power supply. The 120mm fan at the moment sits at the side of the case causing no airflow.
Afraid I really can't see any logic in having a partition for backups on your only drive. Unless you are in the habit of accidentally deleting your files on a regular basis. The imminent release of Leopard makes it an even less sensible practice. Buying extra drives for backup is a pain on the wallet, but if our only drive goes down, you'll be glad you forked out. I buy Seagate drives since they have nice long warranties. Buy a pair and you know your data is 99% safe for 5 years. Just don't burn your house down.
Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1816
Loc: Florida, USA
Backup as in software updating. Update say OSx and if something goes wrong I can revert back to the backup just by rebooting and switching the boot partition.
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